It occurred to me that it would be super handy to have really flat, really thin wrenches to take on a bike. Almost like a wrench punched out of thick sheet metal.
Yes I tried finding some - no, I haven't found anything I liked yet. But I did discover that Snap-On is still as monstrously expensive as I remember them being. Ye gods.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Dick's Sporting Motorcycle Store
Again, I can't be arsed to just go to a bike store and buy crap - oh no.
Dick's Sporting Goods provided me with lots of "technical" (read: polyester, albeit not as groovy and awful as the stuff I remember as a tot) shirts that do a swell job of keeping me cooler on a bike.
Why not see what else they have?
Seeing as how I more or less hate the stock Repsol Honda grips (like grabbing pencils, really) I decided to grab a couple rolls of thin cloth trainer's tape and some Gamma gel grip tape for tennis rackets.
I built up the surface of the grip using the trainer's tape until I got a nice palmswell. (I do miss my BMW grips, they were very nice in that regard.) Then I put the Gamma grips over that according to the instructions.
They don't look terribly stupid, they reduce hand cramping by giving me something to hold on to without requiring a death grip, and they are slightly tacky which means less effort overall to hang on to the bike. Also, being gel-core, they reduce vibration and just plain feel nice!
Result!
Dick's Sporting Goods provided me with lots of "technical" (read: polyester, albeit not as groovy and awful as the stuff I remember as a tot) shirts that do a swell job of keeping me cooler on a bike.
Why not see what else they have?
Seeing as how I more or less hate the stock Repsol Honda grips (like grabbing pencils, really) I decided to grab a couple rolls of thin cloth trainer's tape and some Gamma gel grip tape for tennis rackets.
I built up the surface of the grip using the trainer's tape until I got a nice palmswell. (I do miss my BMW grips, they were very nice in that regard.) Then I put the Gamma grips over that according to the instructions.
They don't look terribly stupid, they reduce hand cramping by giving me something to hold on to without requiring a death grip, and they are slightly tacky which means less effort overall to hang on to the bike. Also, being gel-core, they reduce vibration and just plain feel nice!
Result!
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